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Porter County council debates $3.5 million in JDC repairs, splits over outside construction manager
Summary
County commissioners discussed roughly $3.5 million in repairs at the Juvenile Detention Center and voted to deny a $560,000 consultant package after a debate over using an outside construction manager versus county facilities staff.
Porter County commissioners spent a prolonged portion of their meeting debating repairs at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC), including whether to hire outside consultants and a construction manager or to have the county facilities department lead the work.
The matter centered on a package of building repairs and systems replacements estimated at about $3.5 million, part of work identified in the county's bond planning. Commissioners discussed specific line items including masonry and tuckpointing, replacement of exterior windows, repair of the drainage system and loading dock work, an evaluation of boilers (estimated at roughly $150,000 if replaced) and replacement of roughly 40 of 44 heat pumps as part of HVAC upgrades.
Why it matters: commissioners said the JDC is one of the county's more heavily used and aging facilities and that several mission-critical…
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